The City of Puerto Armuelles

Puerto Armuelles, named after war hero Coto Tomás Armuelles, is recognized internationally for its banana industry, though its farmers also produce palm oil, rice, beans, corn, and sorghum.

The emerald-green waters and gray sandy beaches that border the city and the coastal rural areas are perfect for recreation. Bananas are loaded onto boats for export from the former Banana Pier, built in 1936.

In the 1980s a deep-water dock and an oil pipeline were built to transport oil drilled in Alaska to the Atlantic, where it was bound for the refineries in Houston and the Gulf Coast of the United States.